What news event do you remember...

[imnotthatkindofmum]

Just been talking to my teens about the queen passing. I commented that they will remember this day for the rest of their lives and they asked me what events I remember.

Mine are
Margaret Thatcher resigning! (Teachers we're celebrating)
The Berlin Wall coming down
Chernobyl
Kurt Cobain dying (prob not significant to everyone but was to me!)

What significant news events from your childhood will you never forget?

Death of Diana
9/11
7/7 bombs in London
Boxing Day Tsunami

As a very young child, the Aberfan disaster.
I'd only just started school and I remember being scared.

9/11
Princess Diana death
Michael Jackson death
Missing child in Portugal...
Kate and William wedding

Not my childhood, just now. That the Queen has died RIP, just after Liz Truss (sneaky) announces fracking will continue.

‘Fracking is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock by drilling into the earth.

It was banned in England in 2019 after new research raised fresh fears over the risk of earthquakes.’

Hillsborough. I had a friend there (he survived the crush).
Collapse of Enron (I was working for a British subsidiary).

Death of Diana.
9/11.
Death of Michael Jackson

I remember them too but I was an adult 😭

I teach geography so I know a lot of detail about natural disasters!

Earliest-Dunblane.
Then Diana.
Various IRA bombings, but not as distinct events (grew up in London)
Then 9/11 when I was 15.

9/11 - I was only 7 but I remember it quite vividly.

Sarah Payne - I remember seeing her school photo on the telly.

Meant that for @Headabovetheparakeet

Pressed post too soon .
Also Prince Charles being crowned Prince of Wales
The moon landings.
The Vietnam war

As a teen, the Yorkshire Ripper. Also scared the life out of me

One of the first marriage of Charles and Diana
hills borough
Death of Diana
Zebrugge disaster
Lockerbie
Berlin Wall

9/11
7/7
boxing day tsunami
Belsen school siege

Berlin Wall
Gulf war
Dunblane
Princess Diana dying
9/11
Beslan school siege
7/7

The death of Elvis ,
Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister,
The Silver Jubilee ,
The Yorkshire Ripper .

Falklands War
Maggie Thatcher resignation (unlike a previous poster our headmaster was devastated)
Too many killings to count (Troubles).
Sadaam Hussains invasion
September 11th

Aberfan was the first one, I remember my mum talking about it over the garden wall with our neighbour.

All the "big" ones since.

Ooh forgot Charles and di's wedding. We had a street party, I was young but I remember my dad doing a sack race randomly....

The assassination of JFK
The Cold War and Bay of Pigs
Aberfan
The moon landing - we got to watch it live at school
The death of Elvis Presley
The death of John Lennon
Chernobyl
The death of Diana - we drove down the tunnel the next day, by mistake when we were lost in Paris

First news story I remember is 9/11.

Oo Suddam Husseins death. I watched it live

9/11
Student riots
Brexit

I'm 31

Aberfan
JFK assassination
Moon landing

Ibrox disaster

As a 4 year old, Charles & Diana's wedding.

As a child watching Newsround - the Challenger space shuttle explosion..

At 21 coming out of a club: Diana's death..

At 24 in the day room on the tv in the ward where I worked: 9/11

The Zeebrugge disaster.
The Berlin Wall coming down.
Diana dying.
9/11
Nelson Mandela being released.